"Romanticism, Environment, Crisis" will highlight the continuing urgencyof the Romantic text at a time when changes in our biosphere threaten torealize Romanticism's prophetic anxieties, its darkest imaginings.

Ecocriticism has found Romanticism to be crucial ground. How do greenreadings of Romantic texts help us understand contemporary environmentalcrisis? What is the relation between ecocriticism and environmentalism,between literature and science?

The conference represents an exciting opportunity to take stock of thecontribution of ecocriticism and environment-aligned studies to ourunderstanding of the relationship between Romantic authors, texts and thenatural world.